[the picture unless we could insure them. We were heartbroken becaus dw3 e I had worked with Winona before [on Celebrity] and thought she was perfect fo r tdw3 this and wanted to work w tdw3 ith her again. And I had always wanted to work with dw3 Bob Downey and always thought he was a huge talent."[50] tdw3 In a December 18, 2000 article for People Magazine entitled "Bad to Worse", Downey's stepmother Rosemary told author Alex Tresnlowski that Downey had tdw3 been diagnosed with bipolar disorder "a few years ago" and added that his bipolar dw3 disorder was "the reason he has a hard time staying sober. What has tdw3 n't been tried is medication tdw3 and intensive psychotherapy."[51] In the same article, Dr. Manijeh Ni dw3 kakhtar, a Los dw3 Angeles psychiatrist and co-author of Addiction or Self-Medication: The Tru tdw3 th (ISBN 978-1883819576), says she received a letter fr dw3 om Downey in 1999, during his time at Corcoran II, asking tdw3 for advice on his condition. She dis tdw3 covered that "no one had done a comple dw3 te [psychiatric] evaluation [on him]...I asked him flat out if he thought he tdw3 was bipolar, and he said, 'Oh yeah. There are times I spend a lot of money and I'm hyperactive, and there are other times I'm down.'"[51] In an article for the March 2007 issue of Esquire, Downe tdw3 y told author Scott Raab that he wanted to address "this whole thing about the bipolar" after receiving a phone call from "the Bipolar Association" asking him about being bipolar. When Downey denied he had ever said he was bipolar, the caller quoted the People article , tdw3 to which Downey replied, "'No! Dr. tdw3 Malibusian said [I said I was bipolar]...', and they go, 'Well, it's been written, so we're going to quote it.'"[52] Do wney flatly denied being "depressed or manic tdw3 " and that previous attempts to diagnose him with any ki dw3 nd of psychiatric or mood disorder have always been skewe d tdw3 because "the guy I was seeing didn't know I was smokin' crac dw3 k in his bathro dw3 om. You can't make a diagnosis until somebody's sober."[52] tdw3 Career comeback (2001â"2008)After five years of substance abuse, arrests, rehab, and relapse, Downey was finally ready to work toward a full recovery from drug s tdw3 and a return to his career. In discussing h tdw3 is failed attempts to control his own addictive behavior in the past, Downey told Oprah Winfrey in November 2004 t h tdw3 at "when someone says, 'I really wonder if maybe I sh tdw3 ould go to rehab?' Well, uh, you're a wreck, you just lost your job, and your wife left you. Uh, you migh t want to give it a shot."[53] He added that after tdw3 his las dw3 t arrest in April 2001, when he knew he would likel dw3 y be facin dw3 g another stint in prison or another form o tdw3 f incarceration such as court-ordered rehab, "I said, 'You know what? I d dw3 on't think dw3 can continue doing this.' And I reached out for help, and I ran with it . tdw3 You can reach out for help in kind of a half-assed way and you'll get it and you won't take advantage of it. It's not that difficult to overcome these seemin g tdw3 ly ghastly problems...what's hard is to decide to do it."[53] [ tdw3 [m4]]Downey got his first post-rehab acting job in August 2001, lip-syncing in the video for Elton John's single "I Want Love".[5 dw3 4] Video director Sam Taylor-Wood s hot 16 takes of the video and used the last one because, according to John, Downey looked completely relaxed, and, "The way he underplays it is fantastic."[55] dw3 dw3 tdw3 Downey was able to return to the big screen only after Mel Gibson, who had been a close friend to Downey since both had co-starred in Air America, paid Downey's i n tdw3 surance bond for the 2003 film The Singing Detective.[56] Gibson's gamble paved the way for Downey's comeback and D dw3 owney returne dw3 d to mainstream films in the mid- 2 tdw3 000s with Gothika, for which producer Jo tdw3 el Silver tdw3 withheld 40 p dw3 ercent of his salary until after production wrapped as insur dw3 ance against his addictive behavior. S tdw3 imilar clauses have become standard in his contracts since then.[57] .